Professor of Strategy at SPRU.
Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.
Editor Research Policy.
Acting Director HSP.
Views mine, not my employer. Politics unfashionable since 1654 ..
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Professor of Strategy at SPRU.
Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.
Editor Research Policy.
Acting Director HSP.
Views mine, not my employer. Politics unfashionable since 1654
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲
The accumulating negative impact over time is worrying.
Which is very close to what the economists predicted.
"by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time." 😲
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Focus on excellence is good.
The argument for it was unfair about ukri at the time.
So probably positive,(????) but it didn't address the key issues the UK faces.
He was a huge fighter for research at the time. In a Government that won't go down in history for being great at science policy. But politically.... I'm not sure we'd see i2i
I interviewed one of the main funders who said they felt it was a waste of money (but did generate useful research tools).
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So Jim Watson had died. A little thread on his influence on science policy.
6. "End of pipe" engagement with social science - basically sociologists and ethnicists fighting about over hyped guff.
7. Thin management.
5.
1. Hugely hyped tech promises.
2. Vast, unstaged funding with no stage gate reviews.
3. "Christmas list" organisation, bringing in collaboration based on "garbage can" matching of problems to pre-existing solutions.
4. Weak governance. Often with bullies at the top.
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Lots of failures and problematic programmes draw heavily on it.
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I interviewed one of the main funders who said they felt it was a waste of money (but did generate useful research tools).
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There is a huge amount of research on managing research, but the evidence clashes with ideology ("epistemic injustice" 🤣🤣) creating a simple choice that should be obvious.
We are going to end up in an embarrassing place soon.
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Farewell to the finest Canadian military historian of his generation
www.tvo.org/article/fare...
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For Tim, who died on October 25 of cancer at 53 years old, death was not an abstraction. He could not leave it at the office at the end of the ...
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- Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩
- I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌
youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
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economist.com/britain/2025...
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Robbie Gibb should have absolutely no role whatsoever in the governance of the Corporation.
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